How do you write about television? As a medium with so many individual pieces, prestige TV maximizes those pieces to the absolute limit, particularly when we have various creative talent that slide in and out from episode to episode.
Bly Manor is a deeply unsatisfying package, but even those packages have bits of goodness in them. This episode felt like the tiniest nugget of gold in a haystack I haven’t been able to care about. I felt like we finally got to the meat of the conflict here, but at what cost? We have floundered for six hours before we get to it, only seeing the slightest morsels of intrigue. I don’t care that the show isn’t scary—horror has never :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:really:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: been about scaring people, even though that’s ultimately what they do. But I can’t shake the fact that the whole interpersonal drama of Bly Manor is frustratingly misplaced and doesn’t really coexist within the genre to which it so desperately wants to belong. I don’t really recommend this series. I recommend other projects like it though: Crimson Peak or Hereditary to name a few. At the very least, I got my one morsel.
Review by filmboicoleBlockedParent2020-10-16T16:28:08Z
How do you write about television? As a medium with so many individual pieces, prestige TV maximizes those pieces to the absolute limit, particularly when we have various creative talent that slide in and out from episode to episode.
Bly Manor is a deeply unsatisfying package, but even those packages have bits of goodness in them. This episode felt like the tiniest nugget of gold in a haystack I haven’t been able to care about. I felt like we finally got to the meat of the conflict here, but at what cost? We have floundered for six hours before we get to it, only seeing the slightest morsels of intrigue. I don’t care that the show isn’t scary—horror has never :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:really:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: been about scaring people, even though that’s ultimately what they do. But I can’t shake the fact that the whole interpersonal drama of Bly Manor is frustratingly misplaced and doesn’t really coexist within the genre to which it so desperately wants to belong. I don’t really recommend this series. I recommend other projects like it though: Crimson Peak or Hereditary to name a few. At the very least, I got my one morsel.
Who knows. Maybe I’m just a fool.